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Places to shop / seek advice
| Go-Dive (Derby) | Learn to dive with us! Well priced products! Good online + customer service. | |
| Dive Life | Excellent customer service and advice, fast postage. (Stockists of the 4th E suits.) | |
| Fourth Element | Info about the range + sales | |
| Northern Diver | Check out the Z suits for super bargains, or call the shop with your measurements for bargain suits. | |
| Good customer service | ||
| Watersportswarehouse | Fantastic customer service, signup for emails and recieve many special offers throughout the year. Often more expensive than go-dive though. | |
| AP valves | Fantastic customer service, will send out brochures asap, and give out FOC advice on technical repairs, individual fits etc etc. | |
| Oceanic | Fantasitc customer service for advice, repairs, hire, equipment queeries, etc, etc. | |
| Lycra swim hats and swimsuits. Superfast delivery, and good customer service. | ||
| Decathlon | Now selling selected dive products. Often good sales prices on sucba gear. | |
| Frank Macbeth at Euphoria Diving | Well priced coated/uncoated lead. Lovely dive school to dive with! | |
| Galaxsea divers (Ipswich) | Stockists of the 4th E range (and others). Good customer service, care + advice. | |
| Stoney cove shop | Check out the bargain bins, they often have a few suprises. Good online customer service and fast shipping. | |
| Mikes Dive Store (London) | Large stockist of Oceanic (amongst other brands), fantastic customer service, happy to answer any product queeries and help you with kit (even if not bought from them) - Lovely staff team. (Do not confuse with ebay shop - different company, similar name) | |
| All-posters | ||
| Vistaprint | Buisness cards, stamps, letterheads etc. Fast effective service. | |
| Pics 2 posters | Often delays in printing, but print quality is superb, and prices generally unbeatable for small - medium orders. | |
| Tesco Photos | Standard photo prints = gd quality, and reasonably priced, photo posters are of poor quality compared to pics2posters and more expensive. Canvas pictures are of high quality. Mugs good quality and chunky/sturdy. Placemats are good quality for money and have a high gloss finnish - pay particular attention to cropping though as this can be a tad weird, the backing is cork (they are not melamine finnish). | |
| Full melamine placemats, super quality and reasonably priced. Large orders required though. Minimums of 400+. | ||
| Padi | Padi products, info and advice | |
| BSAC | BSAC group finder |
Places to dive:
| Stoney cove | Good inland UK site with lots of wrecks, and high safety conscious staff. Warm showers, cafe, car, shop, lots of car-parking but get there early at weekends for a close slot or prebook. £10 entry fee for members per day, or £15 non-members. | |
| Shetland | (Please contact me direct for links ot the commercial dive team, BSAC club, and padi associates). Fantastic dive team based between Sullum Voe, Lunar and Lerwick, but travel everywhere. Shore dives, boat trips and rib dives available, air and 40% nitrox available. Cylinder hire can be arranged, although flybe flight operators do include 1 tank FOC as part of the dive luggage deal. Good water clarity, and warmer than you may think. Best time of year to dive = May-Sept. Long daylight hours in summer permit upto 5 dives a day + /- night dives. Waterclarity upto 20m's. Underwater life superb, and lots of wrecks ranging from 12m + (very accessable). Currents can be easily avoided, drysuit required, but beginners would be welcome here. Boats take upto 12 divers. Ribs upto 10 on large, 6 small. Early summer offers more bird life, later summer offers more seals, killer whales and dog sharks (small + harmless). temps approx 17 deg C (june), to 10 deg C (end sept). | |
| Farnes | Contact go-dive for latest trips | |
| TabaHeights --> Redsea underwaterworld | Great centre, accept
loyalty discount sheme accreddited throughout egypt tour operators,
good
divesite staff + guides, nice fish + corals. Hyatt hotel is
beautiful with smashing house reef (5 star), free buses to diveoperator
+ boats + shops. Can also book through longwood holidays,
which is sometimes cheaper. |
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| Dahab --> posiedon divers | Very high quality teaching, safety conscious, fun, and beautiful divesites. Contact 'Steve' direct for a super-deal, or travel through Gap-year-divers (generally cheaper than direct packages). - Would reconmend upgrade accomodation though e.g the Yasmina (for those on buget but still with pool, internet and air-con or higher star rating). | |
| Gap-year-diver.com | Great trips for all ages, holidays from 2 weeks to 1yr+. Will make custom arrangements, and are very reasonable. Phone contact is sometimes difficult but email usaully works fine. Many customer reviews on facebook. Personally I've found this company a pleasure to deal with, and definately recieved value for money + more, having spent 1 month with them. |